It's not illegal to be an asshole.

I do enjoy my solo time ... I want to stay home and do soundtracks and watch TV in my underwear with a keyboard on my lap and just be a couch potato.

I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show.

I was been raised to believe I was an artist. I believed what my parents said and fulfilled it, like a prophecy.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

I think about music in the way that I heard music as a kid - like, Oh my god, there's this weird rubbery ball of undulating things.

My music already has this oldish kind of quality to it, like you don't necessarily know what era it was recorded in, so it all kind of felt surreal and weird. Night after night when I played live, I was really trying to figure it out in real time, and I still don't know what effect I'm going for or what effect I actually achieve. Looking back, I feel like it would be arrogant of me not to appreciate the fact that I've been able to do whatever I want and still have an audience come see me.